Rails, MySQL and friends on Snow Leopard

Rails, MySQL and friends on Snow Leopard

These are just my notes for my archive, your mileage may vary. For the ultimate guide, see Mike Gunderloy’s Definitive Guide on A Fresh Cup

XCode from SL disk
Install straight from the Snow Leopard disk.

iPhone SDK
Install new Snow Leopard iPhone SDK from http://developer.apple.com/iphone
(um, yeah, nothing to do with Rails, just a reminder to me that it’s different from the Leopard version)

Ports
blow away ports since they’re broken and we’re going to install stuff from source
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#uninstall

ImageMagick
(from source, not ports):
https://github.com/maddox/magick-installer/tree

git
http://www.icoretech.org/2009/08/install-git-from-source-on-snow-leopard-64-bit/ or http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/
First link (make from source) worked well for me.

ruby
Install RVM http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/

MySQL
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#macosx-dmg (get 64 bit version)

MySQL pref pane
A nice chap made a 64 bit version of the MySQL preference pane. Make sure you’ve installed the startup items from above package first.
http://www.swoon.net/site/software.html

MySQL gem
(from http://gist.github.com/177368)
sudo gem uninstall mysql

sudo env ARCHFLAGS=“-arch x86_64” gem install mysql — —with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

Update gems
(from http://gist.github.com/177368)
irb> `gem list`.each_line {|line| `sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install #{line.split.first}`}
or…
http://gist.github.com/178178 (better, I think)

Passenger
sudo gem install -r passenger

sudo passenger-install-apache2-module

Passenger Preference Pane
New updated version of Passenger Preference Pane that is Snow Leopard compatible:
http://www.fngtps.com/2009/09/new-os-more-pane-passenger-preference-pane-v1-3